Keith James

I'm a nomadic Ohio native who has called CNY home since 1991. Although a musician and teacher by trade, it's by complete chance that I'm even behind a radio microphone! I live in New Hartford with an amazing woman and 5 wonderful kids. Nothing engages me like a good conversation or new idea and I love winging life in the moment. When the curve balls fly though, there's no cure like retail therapy, a haircut, driving with the windows down or walking around barefoot! When I'm not on the air, some of my hobbies are: Flying Airplanes, Piano / Singing, Texas Hold-em, Competitive Pool, Skating and Movie Nights

It's becoming a regular thing: local musicians from all genres and walks of life coming together at Big Blue North Recording Studio to make another record full of Holiday classics that you can stuff your stockings with and put Central New York in the Christmas mood.

Think Varick Street is dead in the winter? Think again. It's abuzz this Saturday (the 14th) at the Saranac Brewery and the surrounding clubs for the 1st annual 'SANTACON'. But just what IS Santacon, exactly?

All of these years and I've never gone out and got a real tree for Christmas. It was always so much easier to drop the $100-150 for a lighted tree at Wal-Mart, plug it in and BOOM, done. Still felt like Christmas right? Well yeah, BUT...

The first UC Pioneer goal of each hockey game is an electric feeling already but once a year the goal becomes much more than just a point on the scoreboard. Imagine the buzzer going off and then suddenly thousands of plush toy teddy bears and stuffed animals start raining down seemingly from the hea…

The first UC Pioneer goal of each hockey game is an electric feeling already but once a year the goal becomes much more than just a point on the scoreboard. Imagine the buzzer going off and then suddenly thousands of plush toy teddy bears and stuffed animals start raining down seemingly from the hea…

Long gone are the days of ordering something (by mail or phone) and having it delivered days or weeks later by a human being in a truck. Gone are the days of endless anticipation waiting for your goodies to arrive, now gratification is coming more and more instantly.

Director Matt Miller stopped by our studios and expressed an urgent need that the Rome Rescue Mission is facing this Holiday Season. In preparations for their annual Thanksgiving meal that they provide for the community, the sponsor who was supposed to provide the 400-plus turkeys was unable to

One local mom decided to take matters into her own hands after her daughter came home one day complaining of bullying. Now, this wasn't your typical case where some kid was calling names or demanding lunch money, this one crossed an even bigger line

You may be one of the 30,000 people that ride through the Wonderland of Lights every year at the Masonic Home, driving your stuffed carload through all of the displays. But what you may not know is that it's actually a fundraiser

In a commencement address to college seniors back in 2005, the now late David Foster Wallace, an award-winning writer from not-far-away Ithaca outlined how to look at a situation differently in order to find peace of mind body and spirit even in the face of being completely out of control